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Over the last several months, we have been helping our customers upgrade their Microsoft Dynamics 365 environments to V9. As expected, we often need to revise custom code in JScript or plugins, but the upgrades have gone smoothly & our customers are enjoying the benefits of...

We recently discovered some very specific requirements around matching incoming emails to the correct record in Dynamics 365. This customer had an issue with ongoing email conversations where the senders were not tracking their emails in Dynamics 365, but rather relying on the Email tracking and Smart Matching features within Dynamics 365 to handle the job for them. Our focus during this project was to optimize performance, and saving time was a key factor.

One of the exciting new features in S4H will be the ability to determine a Closest-Match Material Variant.
This new search functionality for Material Variants goes above and beyond existing ECC functionality by providing a list of partial matches as well as a quick comparison of configuration...

It’s a common experience: you create the BOM, go to the configurator, fill the conditions, try to explode the BOM and… no items show up.
If you want to explode a BOM in a Production Order, you’ll want to build the BOM with Production-Relevant line items. If you want to...

Engineering Change management (ECM) is a powerful feature of SAP. It allows you to implement changes using effectivity dates and keep a thorough history of changes made to most VC elements. ECM lets you keep VC elements in two states: before the change, and after the change. This is...

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you have to go back and change things after you’ve gone several miles down the road. Characteristics can be one of those things. I have a tendency to create characteristics as simply as possible. I make them CHAR unless there’s a real reason not to. I only make them as long as the longest value I currently have...

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"
― Isaac Newton
Characteristics are one of the fundamental building blocks of Variant Configuration. As building blocks they have to interact with all the other objects in the system; classes, materials, tables, and...

“A man’s got to recognize his limitations” – Dirty Harry
"All limits are self-imposed” – Icarus
Scalability is the ability of a model to grow in size and complexity, using the same design, without sacrificing efficiency. It is...